![]() If you're playing in your first innings four-day test match and batting, it's probably best to keep your batsmen on low aggression, perhaps three bars out of the available eight. You're handed a decent measure of control over how your team bats and bowls, mainly in the "aggression" setting. Matches are where the game really begins. ![]() The effect is so eye-assaultingly bad that switching to windowed mode becomes an absolute priority. The whole thing isn't helped by the fact that the shockingly low-res menus make the pointer and every bit of text LOOK REALLY MASSIVE on any monitor not built before the end of the Cold War. In the future, cricket is played solely by clones of a young Ian Botham. They feel rudimentary, as if the developers figured they'd better put some day-to-day management bits in there for the sake of completeness, but made them as basic as possible at the same time. Such actions don't necessarily have to be boring (Football Manager manages to make even the mundane absorbing) but they are in this case. The former consists of picking a squad, signing new players, selecting the batting order, preparing your pitch and overseeing training. Once you've made your choice, the game becomes a straightforward sports management sim, divided between the routine tasks of captaincy and the matches themselves. There's one additional mode, where you relive well-loved international test series of yesteryear - although, rather bizarrely, you're limited to those involving either Pakistan or Sri Lanka, so last year's blistering Ashes series is off the menu. At the beginning of the single-player campaign you get the choice between taking over a county side and earning the right to lead your country (the full "career" mode), taking over England or another nation straight from the off, or taking charge of both a country and a county at the same time. Did we mention it's endorsed by South African Englishman Kevin Pietersen MBE, a chap so self-obsessed he allegedly insists that girlfriends shout out his name during intercourse? Good golly gosh, we were so ready to royally rip this game a new one.īut we can't, because it's actually not that awful.Īs you'll no doubt have guessed from its title, the game puts you in the pads and, erm, box of a cricket captain. With creakingly animated sprites (sprites!) instead of beautiful 3D graphics. About cricket, that most treacle-paced of sporting pursuits. ![]() It's a budget management game, developed by a handful of unknowns. International Cricket Captain 2006 is the sort of game that, as a reviewer, you look forward to demolishing with gleeful relish - like a be-capped 1950s schoolboy greedily eyeing up a rival's dangling conker.
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